Matthew Gasda’s Latest Play Explores a Crisis in AI

You could say that Matthew Gasda specialises in period pieces – that is, culture, politics, and technology have accelerated to such a fast pace that his contemporary plays have already entered the history books by the time they hit the stage. “You’re not only seeing a contemporary play,” he tells Dazed, having recently landed in London. “You’re also seeing, weirdly enough, a play about the recent but also very distant past at the same time.”